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Recommender systems objectives can be broadly characterized as modeling user preferences over short-or long-term time horizon. A large body of previous research studied long-term recommendation through dimensionality reduction techniques…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Kiewan Villatel , Elena Smirnova , Jérémie Mary , Philippe Preux

Modeling the evolution of user preference is essential in recommender systems. Recently, dynamic graph-based methods have been studied and achieved SOTA for recommendation, majority of which focus on user's stable long-term preference.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Huixuan Chi , Hao Xu , Hao Fu , Mengya Liu , Mengdi Zhang , Yuji Yang , Qinfen Hao , Wei Wu

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is one of the most important machine learning tasks in recommender systems, driving personalized experience for billions of consumers. Neural architecture search (NAS), as an emerging field, has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Qingquan Song , Dehua Cheng , Hanning Zhou , Jiyan Yang , Yuandong Tian , Xia Hu

Online stores and service providers rely heavily on recommendation softwares to guide users through the vast amount of available products. Consequently, the field of recommender systems has attracted increased attention from the industry…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Abdullah Alhadlaq , Said Kerrache , Hatim Aboalsamh

Recently, recommendation according to sequential user behaviors has shown promising results in many application scenarios. Generally speaking, real-world sequential user behaviors usually reflect a hybrid of sequential influences and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Xu Chen , Kenan Cui , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, a core task in recommendation systems, estimates user click likelihood using historical behavioral data. Modeling user behavior sequences as text to leverage Language Models (LMs) for this task has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zixuan Li , Binzong Geng , Jing Xiong , Yong He , Yuxuan Hu , Jian Chen , Dingwei Chen , Xiyu Chang , Liang Zhang , Linjian Mo , Chengming Li , Chuan Yuan , Zhenan Sun

Despite recommender systems play a key role in network content platforms, mining the user's interests is still a significant challenge. Existing works predict the user interest by utilizing user behaviors, i.e., clicks, views, etc., but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xuanji Xiao , Huaqiang Dai , Qian Dong , Shuzi Niu , Yuzhen Liu , Pei Liu

Nowadays, many recommender systems encompass various domains to cater to users' diverse needs, leading to user behaviors transitioning across different domains. In fact, user behaviors across different domains reveal changes in preference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Changshuo Zhang , Teng Shi , Xiao Zhang , Qi Liu , Ruobing Xie , Jun Xu , Ji-Rong Wen

In the recommender system of Meituan Waimai, we are dealing with ever-lengthening user behavior sequences, which pose an increasing challenge to modeling user preference effectively. Existing sequential recommendation models often fail to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Zhichao Feng , Junjiie Xie , Kaiyuan Li , Yu Qin , Pengfei Wang , Qianzhong Li , Bin Yin , Xiang Li , Wei Lin , Shangguang Wang

Sequential recommendation predicts users' next behaviors with their historical interactions. Recommending with longer sequences improves recommendation accuracy and increases the degree of personalization. As sequences get longer, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Qianying Lin , Wen-Ji Zhou , Yanshi Wang , Qing Da , Qing-Guo Chen , Bing Wang

Recommendation is a prevalent and critical service in information systems. To provide personalized suggestions to users, industry players embrace machine learning, more specifically, building predictive models based on the click behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Hanwang Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

Short video streaming systems such as TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, etc., have reached billions of active users worldwide. At the core of such systems are (proprietary) recommendation algorithms which recommend a sequence of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Maleeha Masood , Shreya Kannan , Zikun Liu , Deepak Vasisht , Indranil Gupta

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial issue in recommendation systems. There has been an emergence of various public CTR datasets. However, existing datasets primarily suffer from the following limitations. Firstly, users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Zhaoxin Huan , Ke Ding , Ang Li , Xiaolu Zhang , Xu Min , Yong He , Liang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Linjian Mo , Jinjie Gu , Zhongyi Liu , Wenliang Zhong , Guannan Zhang

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction tasks play a pivotal role in real-world applications, particularly in recommendation systems and online advertising. A significant research branch in this domain focuses on user behavior modeling. Current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Hengyu Zhang , Junwei Pan , Dapeng Liu , Jie Jiang , Xiu Li

Generative recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm that formulates the recommendations into a text-to-text generation task, harnessing the vast knowledge of large language models. However, existing studies focus on considering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Sunkyung Lee , Seongmin Park , Jonghyo Kim , Mincheol Yoon , Jongwuk Lee

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays an important role in online advertising and recommendation systems, which aims at estimating the probability of a user clicking on a specific item. Feature interaction modeling and user interest…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Zuowu Zheng , Changwang Zhang , Xiaofeng Gao , Guihai Chen

Attribute-aware sequential recommendation entails predicting the next item a user will interact with based on a chronologically ordered history of past interactions, enriched with item attributes. Existing methods typically leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shereen Elsayed , Ngoc Son Le , Ahmed Rashed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Modeling ultra-long user behavior sequences is critical for capturing both long- and short-term preferences in industrial recommender systems. Existing solutions typically rely on two-stage retrieval or indirect modeling paradigms, incuring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Zheng Chai , Qin Ren , Xijun Xiao , Huizhi Yang , Bo Han , Sijun Zhang , Di Chen , Hui Lu , Wenlin Zhao , Lele Yu , Xionghang Xie , Shiru Ren , Xiang Sun , Yaocheng Tan , Peng Xu , Yuchao Zheng , Di Wu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) that incorporated lifelong sequential modeling (LSM) have brought great success to recommendation systems in various social media platforms. While continuous improvements have been made in domain-specific LSM,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Ruijie Hou , Zhaoyang Yang , Yu Ming , Hongyu Lu , Zhuobin Zheng , Yu Chen , Qinsong Zeng , Ming Chen

Learning large-scale industrial recommender system models by fitting them to historical user interaction data makes them vulnerable to conformity bias. This may be due to a number of factors, including the fact that user interests may be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Ameya Raul , Amey Porobo Dharwadker , Brad Schumitsch